Worth Reading, But Not Much To Talk About
About Obama…
Polling data indicates that Obama has been losing religious voters in droves.
“On Faith” asks: “Should Barack Obama have resigned from his church?” Responses seem to fall into two basic categories - Does changing churches means he has changed what he thinks? (my comment: since he claims not to have agreed with them to begin with does in make a difference?) - and, Cut the Obama’s a break when they look for the new one.
OK, here is the short and long of it Schroeder style - Obama should quit talking about his church and concentrate on what he thinks - and thought - about the issues that got him into this mess not “I disagree…” but “I think…”.
In The UK…
Tony Blair is trying to get some “faith-based” activity of his own going.
There is agitation for complete church-state separation. If it wasn’t for the rhetoric be used, I might agree.
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Lori on 05 Jun 2008 at 4:21 pm #
In my experience, those who leave a church have stopped believing in the church’s doctrine. They have lost faith in the church’s beliefs. Its the exact opposite of joining a church. You join a church because you have come to believe its doctrine, you have developed faith. After 20 years, did Obama suddenly realize he had lost faith in black liberation theology? No, I think he joined it for the same reason he left it. Not because his deeply held beliefs lead him to the church. No it was for political expediency, both the joining and the leaving. –OR– He could have had a faith strong enough to join the church and then his faith in it weakened ever so slowly that it took 20 years for him to realize he no longer had any faith in it (both he and Michelle concurrently). I don’t think he would own up to the weak faith argument. Therefore, it must have been political expediency.